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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Tokas were the talk of pre-war Paris. Photographed by Cecil Beaton and Man Ray, painted by Picasso and written about by Hemingway, they were at the heart of Parisian cult……続きを見る

"An affecting meditation on loss and exile" ANGEL GURRIA-QUINTANA, Financial Times Windsor Laferrière left Haiti in fear of his life. He has lived in Montreal for thirty-three years, and when his fa……続きを見る

Is it every woman's fate to turn into her mother? This is renowned writer and journalist Virginia Ironside's poignant and blackly funny memoir of life with fashion professor and media icon Janey Iro……続きを見る

Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth in a house inappropriately named 'Sunny Lawn'. Her mother drank gin in an attempt to terminate the pregnancy, and her father fled the family home. At t……続きを見る

The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography offers a historical overview of the genre from the foundational works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau through the great autobiographies of the Romantic……続きを見る

In these pages, Kevin Crossley-Holland visits the foreign land of childhood. First memories as a war-baby; starting a museum; being coached at Lord's; living above the spring line below the great ch……続きを見る

A homage to a remarkable poet and his world. 'At The Loch of Green Corrie is more than merely elegant, more than a collection of albeit fascinating insights, laugh-out-loud observations and impressi……続きを見る

Until the posthumous publication of the Millenium Trilogy, Stieg Larsson was probably best known for his commitment to left-wing causes, and his tireless work as an anti-fascist activist. Horrified ……続きを見る

Author C.S. Forester is best known for naval battle scenes and compelling accounts about life in the British navy, but his interests were eclectic and he wrote many captivating articles about his pe……続きを見る

Two worlds are intertwined in this hauntingly beautiful story as it moves from Toronto to the English moors and to Venice, Italy. The time frame shifts between present and past, linking the lives of……続きを見る

In 1995, Adam Gopnik and his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. Charmed by the beauties of the city, Gopnik set out to exp……続きを見る

Determined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of the war on Syria's civilians, veteran photographer Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin, one of the foremost……続きを見る

वर्जीनिया वूल्फ की गिनती विश्व की महान महिला लेखिकाओं में होती है। उनका पूरा नाम अडेलीन वर्जीनिया वूल्फ था। उनका जन्म २५ सितंबर, १८८२, को २२ हाइड पार्क गेट, लंडन, में हुआ था। इस महान अंग्रेज़ लेखिका……続きを見る

In a supplement to his The American Language, H.L. Mencken encapsulated the early history of Kentucky: "What is now Kentucky was the first region beyond the mountains to be settled. Pioneers began t……続きを見る

टोनी मॉरिसन ने अपनी अभूतपूर्व साहित्यिक कृतियों से अपने लिये अमरीकी और विश्व साहित्य में एक विशिष्ट स्थान बना लिया है। उनका जन्म का नाम क्लोवी अर्देलिया वॉफर्ड था। टोनी मॉरिसन का जन्म १८ फरवरी १९३१ ……続きを見る

जॉर्ज ऑरवेल वास्तव में एरिक आर्थर ब्लेर का लिखने का नाम था। एरिक आर्थर ने जॉर्ज ऑरवेल के नाम से अंग्रेज़ी साहित्य को अभूतपूर्व योगदान प्रदान किया है। उनका जन्म २५ जून १९०३ को ब्रिटिश इंडिया में बिहा……続きを見る

अलेक्जेंडर पुश्किन का पूरा नाम अलेक्जेंडर सेरगेयेविच पुश्किन था। उनका जन्म रूसी साम्राज्य के मॉस्को में ६ जून १७९९ में हुआ था। वो रोमांटिक युग के एक महान लेखक थे जिनको रूस के सबसे महान कवि के रूप मे……続きを見る

The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works. Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of O……続きを見る

Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never writt……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of the bard’s plays, and his sonnets and poems. The texts were edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, making it one of the most……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The Professor is Charlotte Brontë’s first novel, reflecting her own experience of life in Brussels and publi……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, t……続きを見る

This classic collection of stories from Jerome K. Jerome include ON BEING IDLE, ON BEING IN LOVE, ON BEING IN THE BLUES, ON BEING HARD UP and many others. 続きを見る

This classic text by H.G. Wells is described as “Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters." 続きを見る

Mark Twain is America’sーperhaps the world’sーbest known humorous writer. Yet many commentators in his time and our own have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature rather than a cr……続きを見る

Today it's called In Search of Lost Time, though an earlier generation knew it as Remembrance of Things Past. Under whatever title, and whichever translator, Proust's gargantuan novel has challenged……続きを見る

The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' Barack Obama Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents a……続きを見る

A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of ……続きを見る

World Enough and Time focuses on the positive effect of deliberately simple living on creativity. McEwen juxtaposes religious traditions of both the East and West, and intertwines words of wisdom fr……続きを見る

Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has held pivotal roles in the evolution and revolutions of modern Latin American literature. Perhaps su……続きを見る